Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped.

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.

Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

I found my wedding dress about a week after we got engaged.

I found my style in my aunt's attic. She hoarded all her '60s clothes there, along with the tiaras she'd won as a beauty queen, and I'd steal her wedding dress to wear around town.

When choosing vendors for my wedding, I intentionally searched for women who were at the beginning of their own founder journeys.

I found out I was pregnant seven days after my wedding. I was on honeymoon with my family.

It's not that I think weddings - or marriages - are letdowns. It's just that I want to see my wedding as one awesome achievement on a continuum of achievements, all of which were, in their way, just as beautiful and profound for having led me to the current one.